ID: Is this a pigeon meme where the person is tagged “cis society”, the butterfly in their hand is tagged “trans people having a backbone about anything at all”, and they are asking “is this destroying my free speech?”
ID: Is this a pigeon meme where the person is tagged “cis society”, the butterfly in their hand is tagged “trans people having a backbone about anything at all”, and they are asking “is this destroying my free speech?”
Your identity is used to attack trans people. Ally or no, it is an accurate statement to say “cis society” rather than “conservative”. Even if there are “many times more allies than trans people” (something I doubt) not all of those uncomfortable with trans people are conservative.
I don’t want you to think I am arguing with you or looking down on you, but you expressed specific doubts and I want us to look at data together and remove those doubts.
According to PewResearch the USA has 1.6% of all adults as trans and/or nonbinary LINK HERE
Other polls appear to place them at or near one of the highest rate in the world, particularly among youths, possibly tied with Brazil, but the USA only ranks #9 for trans inclusivity laws in a 2016 study by UCLA (probably fallen several places since then).
Another PewResearch study LINK HERE shows that 64% of the US public strongly favor protecting trans people from discrimination.
So you have 40 cis trans-allies for every trans person in the USA. In countries like Sweden the trans population might be a lower percentage but trans inclusion is higher so you’ll probably have a much higher trans-allies to trans ratio.
So there are many more cis trans-allies than there are trans. You have support and acceptance that I don’t think you should shut yourself off from, although it’s also good to have a safespace or strong community of people you relate more closely to as well.